Yeah - if only Carmack had read the Gang of Four on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_Patterns http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_Patterns - imagine how much

Yeah - if only Carmack had read the Gang of Four on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_Patterns http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_Patterns - imagine how much more he would have accomplished! He could have used the Flyweight pattern for texels, since the same color is used many times - and that's just one example! :)